[3][4] Knight was a YWCA executive secretary in Waco, Texas,[5] and a publicist in New York City as a young woman.

[8] "People always ask me how many books I have written and I never seem to be able to give them the latest correct figure," she told a reporter in 1946.

[3] Her book Pray for a Miracle (1941) is also considered science fiction, as it deals with a hidden jungle civilization.

[9] After World War II, one of her books, Port of Seven Strangers (1945), was distributed to American soldiers.

[12] She was a member of the Mystery Writers of America, and some of her novels were serialized in major newspapers, including The Boston Globe,[13][14] The Kansas City Star,[15] and The Philadelphia Inquirer.